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B2MeM Prompt and Path: Multimedia (orange path)
Format: mixed media (music, graphic)
Genre: angst
Rating: T
Warnings: foreshadowed character death and blood
Characters: Gudrún (Norse mythology)
Pairings: only implied
Creator’s Notes (optional): The Wild square sent me to the orange path, and I chose multimedia. This entry contains three things: 1) a recording of me singing a few stanzas of Tolkien’s alliterative poem “The New Lay of the Völsungs,” based on Norse mythology; 2) a graphic; 3) a transcript of the text that I’m singing. A longer explanation is under the cut.
Summary: Gudrún tells her mother Grímhild that she is troubled by dark dreams of foreboding. Her mother tries to reassure her.

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